On Martyrs
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Chapter 1
1Bonwetsch GCS 27:520
Ἐκ τοῦ περὶ μαρτύρων λόγου. Ι. οὕτω γὰρ θαυμαστὸν καὶ περισπούδαστόν ἐστι τὸ μαρτύριον. ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ, τιμῶν αὐτὸ ἐμαρτύρησεν, „οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγησάμενος τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ“, ἵνα καὶ τούτῳ τὸν ἄνθρωπον τῷ χαρίσματι εἰς ὃν κατέβη στέψῃ.
Ek tou peri martyrōn logou. I. houtō gar thaumaston kai perispoudaston esti to martyrion. hoti autos ho kyrios Iēsous Christos, ho huios tou theou, timōn auto emartyrēsen, „ouch harpagmon hēgēsamenos to einai isa theǭ“, hina kai toutǭ ton anthrōpon tǭ charismati eis hon katebē stepsę̄.
From the discourse On the Martyrs.
I. For martyrdom is so wonderful and so worth striving for that the Lord Jesus Christ himself, the Son of God, honoring it, bore witness, “not counting it robbery to be equal with God,” so that he might crown with this gift too the human being to whom he came down.
Chapter 2
2Bonwetsch GCS 27:520
ΙΙ. Πάσης ἀγαθῆς ἡ καταρχὴ πράξεως ἐν τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ βουλῇ τὴν ὑπόστασιν κέχτηται, τὸ δὲ συμπέρασμα ἐν τῷ θεῷ.
II. Pasēs agathēs hē katarchē praxeōs en tę̄ hēmeterą boulę̄ tēn hypostasin kechtētai, to de symperasma en tǭ theǭ.
II. Of every good deed the beginning has its foundation in our will, but the completion in God.